Release Concert and Pre-order

The very first Swedish lute solo album is soon to be released on major platforms. Pre-order your digital copy now!

The release concert will take place at the Stockholm Early Music Festival on June 5th at 6 pm in the Finnish Church in Gamla stan. Get your ticket here while they're still available!

Solo Pieces for Lutha (the Album)

The notion of "the Lute" in Sweden is firmly associated with 18th century poet and musician Carl Michael Bellman and the more contemporary Evert Taube. However neither of them actually played the lute. Bellman accompanied his songs on the metal strung cistre, and Taube used a lute shaped guitar, that only in its name and outline associates with the 18th century original and uniquely Swedish lute (Lutha).

Developed in Stockholm, Sweden, in the 1780's, this hybrid instrument combining cistre, guitar and Baroque lute became immensely popular as a solo instrument as well as for accompaniment, mainly used domestically in high society households but also for concerts held at for example the House of Nobility in Stockholm.

Nearly all extant music for the Swedish lute is found in 80 handwritten manuscripts in museums and archives in Sweden and Finland. The printed sources are merely a
handful.

On this very first recording of a Swedish lute ever to be released, Anders Ericson plays on two original instruments built in 1796 and 1809 respectively, both made in Stockholm by luthier Johan Jerner.